GetPassage urn:cts:latinLit:phi1103.phi001.lascivaroma-eng1:9.1-9.5 urn:cts:latinLit:phi1103.phi001.lascivaroma-eng1:9.1-9.5

'Why be my parts obscene displayed without cover?' thou askest:Ask I wherefore no God careth his sign to conceal?Wieldeth the Lord of the World his thunderbolt ever unhidden,Nor is trident a-sheath given to the Watery God:Mars never veileth that blade whose might is his prevalent power,